5 More Awesome WordPress Plugins For SEO

By: Karan Goel | 27th April 2010

WordPress is the most popular and widely used open-source blogging platform available. It’s great flexibility and SEO capabilities make it the base of millions of blogs online.

Search engines are the best way to promote, publicize and help people discover your content. And so, it becomes very important for a blog that search engines love, and would rank you higher for certain keywords.

WordPress boasts of a gallery of thousands of plugins to improve a blog’s SEO, but not anything works. So, I’ve composed a list of plugins that will improve your blog’s SEO capabilities.

All in one SEO Pack

This plugin is easy to use and is compatible with most WordPress plugins. It works as an overall SEO plugin – automatically generating META tags and optimizes your titles for search engines and helps you in avoiding duplicate content.

HeadSpace2

A powerful all-in-one plugin to manage meta-data and handle a wide range of SEO tasks. It allows you to tag your posts, create custom titles and descriptions, thereby improves your page ranking and relevance on search engines.

Platinum SEO plugin

An all-in-one SEO plugin with a host of features like automatic 301 redirects for permalink changes, auto generation of META tags, avoid duplicate content, SEO optimized post and page titles and a whole lot of other features.

SEO Post Links

SEO Post Links shortens the post slug and retains only the necessary keywords making it Search Engine friendly. It allows you to choose the longest number of characters in your post slug and also remove unnecessary words.

SEO Friendly Images

This plugin helps in making your images SEO friendly. It automatically updates all images with a proper ALT and TITLE. ALT acts as a description for your image and TITLE is the tooltip text displayed when the mouse is over the image. These attributes are one of the important part of SEO.